"Of course I'll attend my dear little sister, after all I love spoiling you!" Tian Hai squeaked out his parody of Xue Chang's earlier words mockingly before bursting out in laughter.
"Now look at you!" The reason for this outburst was because after Xue Ai left, Xue Chang immediately collapsed to the ground in a panic.
He had promised his sister he'd attend the party yet how was he supposed to do that with his unknown identity?
While he was sure Zhou Wei and Xue Mei would be happy for his presence, that was to those he knew personally. Publicly the son of the Xue Family, Xue Chang, did not exist.
As such he couldn't just arrive out of nowhere.
"Although that could be solve with my other identity, Yong Heng. The real issue is how to even get an invitation to the event. It's not like father and mother can just give out invitations randomly to a hunter."
The ones who would be invited to the celebration would have to be the most well known and influential people of the city. Although Yong Heng was becoming a popular topic of conversation, he wasn't to the point where an invite would be sent to him.
And he couldn't even reveal to them who Yong Heng really was.
Seeing Xue Chang's panic, Tian Hai snickered a little more before pulling something out from his robes.
"Don't stress yourself out too much. Your parents have already sent us an invitation letter. If need be we could just use our to allow you in.
Xue Chang grabbed at Tian Hai's robes with tears building up in his eyes.
Hugging his legs tightly Xue Chang cried out, "You're the best!"
The two friends laughed while Tian Kai just shook his head disappointingly.
"The invitation only allows for two people. So that means one of us will have to stay behind."
Looking up after he said this, Tian Kai's eyes were met with the piercing gaze of both Xue Chang and Tian Hai.
"Hell no!"
"Pleeeeease Tian Kai! Cant you just let this slide just this once!"
"C'mon little bro. Don't you know how to respect your elders?"
Watching these two comedians plead with him, Tian Kai felt a headache coming up as his eyes began to twitch.
"Not this time! Do you know how much good food will be served at such a special event?! Who gobbles down all of my best dishes before I can even get them!? Who eats several servings of food without sparing me a single piece!? WHO NEED MY FERMENTED FISH SAUCE TO FEED HIS STUPID DOG!"
Just as he said this, Lil Blackie appeared from his subspace. Hearing the wild rant of Tian Kai, the Asura felt it's hairs stand up on its ends and slowly reversed right back into its protective room.
The three of them went back and forth over who should and shouldn't go before a knock at the door interrupted them.
Tian Kai and Tian Hai glanced at each other before walking over to see who came to visit.
To their surprise, it was Sun Jianhong.
With a goofy smile on his face, he waved at them, "Hey everyone! What's going on?"
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The four of them casually conversed for a while. When the Tian brothers found out who came over to chat, Xue Chang immediately entered into the house and began to prepare himself.
In order to keep his secret, Xue Chang had been manipulating his appearance slightly everyone he met with anyone.
Slightly lengthening his arms, legs, and body; he made himself 170 centimeters to make it seem as if he had been growing throughout the years.
But while the muscle and spine transformation art could reshape his face slightly, it generally could only leave him with a weird or disfigured appearance.
As such Xue Chang chose a simple solution to the fact that his facial appearance remained the same. He wore a veil.
Nothing magical nor mystical about it. Now a simple veil covered his face whenever he conversed with anyone. And if anyone questioned about the veil, then he could show them the disfigurement as a reason for the veil.
It was a foolproof plan. And one that he had been doing for a while now.
As such when Sun Jianhong greeted Xue Chang, he didn't even flinch at the man's odd appearance.
"Hello Xue Chang, it's been a while."
"Sun Jianhong, it's good to see you. Militia treating you well?" The two people discussed various topics with each other as Tian Kai prepared some snacks for all of them.
"Every time I come here the thing I look forward to the most is definitely Tian Kai's cooking. I swear if I ever get a wife in the future I want her to be just like him."
"Why don't you just take him as your wife then? He still single and from the looks of it he won't be entering into a relationship anytime soon." Tian Hai quipped while giving a slight wink toward Sun Jianhong.
Tian Kai rolled his eyes before saying, "That's because I have two people that keep me busy with all the trouble that they cause so I can't even go out to meet anyone."
Sun Jianhong laughed while giving a sidelong glance at the two brothers bickering with one another.
As they we're eating NG, Xue Chang curiously glanced at Sun Jianhong.
He was sure this captain of the guards wasn't just here for some fun banter.
"What are you here for anyway?"
"Oh I almost forgot." Sun Jianhong tapped his head as if trying to jumpstart his brain.
Reaching into his robes, he pulled out a very familiar looking letter that everyone recognized.
"You guys know about the daughter of the Xue Family? Well I was actually invited over to her eighth birthday celebration, I don't really have many friends so you guys were the first people I thought about when I received the invitation!"
Sun Jianhong figured they would all become extremely excited when he told them about the invitation, after all participating in an event sponsored by the Xue Family was a big deal, so he didn't expect all of them to give almost no reaction.
Instead they all just turned to stare at each other for a couple of seconds.
But what Sun Jianhong didn't notice was the evil glint in all of their eyes.